Down on the Dogs

From The National Intelligencer, Washington DC, June 12, 1863, p. 2:

DOWN ON THE DOGS
During the last session of the Georgia Legislature a bill was introduced "to get rid of superfluous dogs," which bill was defeated. It was estimated tht there were one hundred thousand superfluous dogs that would consume enough meat to feed five thousand men, and the wool that was lost by their killing of sheep would clothe five thousand people the first year. The Georgia Legislature, however, maintained the right of dogs to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of" sheep.

From The National Republican, a Washington, DC newspaper, May 24, 1862, p. 3:

"A Woman in Male Attire"
Mrs. Wright, who boards at the Clarendon House, and who says that her husband is a captain in the
army, was caught by officer J.F. Kelley, of the Fourth Ward, promenading the Avenue in male attire. She used profane language freely on being arrested. She says she has been in that attire frequently; been in camps with thousands of men, and this is the first time her sex was detected. A short time previous she was seen in a billiard saloon playing bagatelle. She is a fine, noble looking woman, and plays the part of man well.